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Show CREAM Of THE NEWS. The House has refused to pass a bill to mark the places where Americans fell in the war and were temporarily buried in Cuba and China. A move is on foot for an early adjournment adjourn-ment of Congress. Three of the insurance companies having hav-ing risks in San Francisco h we. refused to conaent to a plan proposed ' tomake a uniform cut of 25 per cent on the face value of all policies in settling losses. An electric car in San Francisco got beyond the central of the motorman and ran down a steep grade, injuring several people. No agreement has been reached in the shipping strike at San Francisco. In a report to Secretary Metcalf from specisl United States agents an improvement improve-ment in the United States trade with China was shown. United States Inspector J. R. Dunn has secured a confession from Lee Suey Nona, disclosing a plan by which the wholesale whole-sale smuggling of Chinese Into this country coun-try is carried on st Vancouver, B. C. Four are dead and several others missing miss-ing as the result of a fire In a flve-story tenement house in New York. A Are In the Armour plant at Omaha resulted in a loss of $100,000. The Ellen Terry benefit matinee, in London, today, promises to surpass all previous benefit performances. Recent heavy rains have wrought much damage In Montana sheep flocks. Mrs. Susan Underwood Is dead, her son. Bryan Underwood. Us fatally 111. and her son-in-law seriously so, from the effect ef-fect of cream purchased at a Kansas City dairy. A father was called upon to choose which of his two sons should be executed for psrtlclpatlon In disarming a police- i man in St. Petersburg, the authorities not- knowing which did It. After the . father had selected one eon and he had been executed, the other was found to be the guilty one, and he is being tried by court-martial. Sianetan. China, was flooded up to the second-storv windows and an annalltnsr j loss of Hie from floods is reported throughout China. It Is reported that President A. J. Tas-satt Tas-satt of the Pennsylvsnla railroad will be asked to appear before the Interstate Commerce committee to make any statement state-ment he desires about his road's distribution distri-bution of coal cars. Those familiar with the revolution In Guatemala say that the purpose of the movement Is to do away with graft and oppressive taxation. The public test yesterdav of Walter Wellman's balloon "America." which he 1 about to depart on his expedition to the north - pole, was eminently successful. suc-cessful. In the House of Commons yesterday John Burns, president of the lol Government Gov-ernment boeM. sunoiementlng his replv to William Field. Nationalist member of the St. Patrick's' division of Dublin, and president of the Irish Cattle-Traders rd Stock-Owners' association. June 9. on the subject of canned foods si Id the local Government hoard was 1o'n everything that can be done bv administrative action "In this serious matter." |